Ashley Fure

Submitted by Samantha Candon on Fri, 10/27/2017 - 09:35

In the News: Infrasound Opera: on Ashley Fure’s ‘The Force of Things’“The staggering originality of Fure’s latest work ... makes one think that mostly female seasons might have to become the norm,” writes The New Yorker about Assistant Professor of Music Ashley Fure’s new experimental music-theater piece.

Submitted by Michael Casey on Mon, 12/05/2016 - 15:54

Alice Gregory features Assistant Professor Ashley Fure in an article in TheNew York Times about women in the history of classical music.

"IN THE SUMMER OF 2014, “Something to Hunt,” by the American composer Ashley Fure, 32 at the time, had its premiere at the prestigious Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany.... In August, Ms. Fure returned to Darmstadt for the biannual festival’s 70th anniversary. The organizers had furnished her with archival data about its history, and Ms. Fure found the underrepresentation of women to be even worse than she had expected. "

Submitted by Samantha Candon on Tue, 04/28/2015 - 12:17

Ashley Fure, Arts and Sciences, MusicDevelopment of a series of kinetic sound art objects featured in a multi-disciplinary performance titled 7 Stages. The funding covers design and fabrication of Arduino-controlled mechanisms that make a cast of “object characters” transform throughout the performance. Fure, who begins work at Dartmouth on July 1, is the composer of the opera, which explores the hidden lives of objects devoid of human gaze.

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